After taking the truck back to J&B Eurotech for the second time in a couple weeks, with a dead alternator, a blown serpentine belt and an old tension pulley and idle pulley we needed to fix it, sell it or pay for it.
Saturday morning, I went to breakfast with college roommates and friends for our usual monthly gathering. Katy busted out the alternator and was on her way to Hugo to get the replacement for free since it was under a lifetime warranty by the time I got back.
Upon returning, we got the new alternator in a jiffy. Though, it took us a while to nail down a piece of one of the pulleys and it took a couple of trips to find the right length serpentine belt. After a while of playing with the serpentine we knocked it out and got all the parts back in order. It took us a few hours, but I don't think that was terrible at all. We had to run to Target twice to get the right tools and to an auto repair store twice to find the right length serpentine belt.
And we won. We saved a huge chunk of change fixing it ourselves and I can't lie, that felt great. I also had a good time telling a manager at work about it too, as he's a friend and was interested. He was thoroughly impressed! (again, with Katy)
The truck arriving from J&B Eurotech. Even with the towing cost we saved a ton!
Katy hard at work. I think we were working on bolting the alternator back in.
Don't believe me?
Here's the proof.
2 comments:
What! Katy fixed your car? I am very very impressed. Glad it worked out! And I like the pictures of the snow.
Katy fixed most of it...I helped!
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